Griesa gave the parties 21 days to reach agreement to stop further infringement. “By overtly instructing its employees to upload as many files as possible to Grooveshark as a condition of their employment, Escape engaged in purposeful conduct with a manifest intent to foster copyright infringement via the Grooveshark service,” Griesa wrote. Griesa pointed to an internal memo sent in 2007 where Greenberg asked employees to “please share as much music as possible from outside the office” to help the service get off the ground. ![]() ‘Manifest intent to foster copyright infringement’ The company is liable to nine record companies including Arista Music, Arista Records, Atlantic Recording, Elektra Entertainment Group, LaFace Records, Sony Music Entertainment, UMG Recording, Warner Brothers Records and Zomba Recording. “Each time Escape streamed one of plaintiffs’ songs recordings, it directly infringed upon plaintiffs’ exclusive performance rights,” the Griesa wrote in a 57-page decision.Ĭhief executive Samuel Tarantino and chief technology officer Joshua Greenberg were both implicated. Judge Thomas Griesa of the US district court in Manhattan ruled on Monday in the 2011 case that despite provisions of the DMCA, Grooveshark and its parent company Escape Media Group were liable for copyright infringement by its employees who were directed to upload a total of 5,977 tracks without permission, including songs by Eminem, Green Day, Jay-Z and Madonna. ‘It directly infringed upon plaintiffs’ exclusive performance rights’ Buying their music through independent channels like Bandcamp is helpful too.Grooveshark relies on the “safe harbour” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to insulate the company from the potentially copyright infringing actions of its 30 million users with 15m files uploaded, responding to take-down requests much in the same way as Google’s YouTube or other user-generated content services. Just treat the community with respect, and of course delete anything if an artist politely asks you to. The way I see it is where there's little to no money to be made, universal human law is more important than copyright law. This is all more or less a legal grey area. Many artists use Soulseek as well, because they are big music fans as well, so they will openly and freely share their music there. ![]() In contrast, many independent collectors use Soulseek to find files from artists that are very difficult or impossible to access through any commercial enterprise. For this kind of music, he would probably be better off using a platform that licenses music and has legal teams to protect their service, like Spotify or Youtube. In other words, copyright holders have interest in hunting these people down. My suspicion is that your son downloaded something that has a lot of commercial value. Soulseek is a music community in addition to a filesharing service, so you perhaps can imagine that there a lot of different kinds of users interested in different kinds of things. What could have gone wrong in my son’s case? Not just because of these downloads but I don’t want everyone to track everything I do online. I will research on some VPN services and will sign up one soon. I called the number and they just talked about the infringement, how to be careful next time, how everyone in the family should be responsible etc. Update: Appreciate all for your responses. How do I avoid this future? Apologize for all the questions but would appreciate any type of advise in this matter. What could have gone wrong in my son’s case? I don’t use a VPN. I read several posts online that people have been downloaded content on soulseek for years without any problems. How serious is this? Should I call ISP’s security department or do something else? I still don’t have internet. I spoke to my teenage son and he said he may have downloaded a few songs using soulseek. ![]() ![]() I logged into their website and found that I have 2 copyright infringement notices. My internet was down since Saturday night.I called the ISP support they said my internet is blocked due to a security violation and I need to talk to their security department that works 9 am to 5 pm Mon thru Friday.
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